Brown County, Indiana

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Brown County Indiana (Class A) BFRO

May 2012

My husband and I rented a cabin in Nashville. We just came down for a year to Indiana. About 11 PM we went to bed. Within minutes our dogs went nuts. My husband got up to check and opened the front door of the cabin. It is covered by a porch and it was raining hard. The porch light doesn't work so it was dark. He closed the door and told me to bring a flashlight and firearm. I ran out of bed and went to him by the door. He said something was breathing heavy on the porch to the left of the door. At this point it occurred to me that our dogs were strangely silent. Being Akita's that have seen bear, wolf, coyote, and lynx all up close in Alaska this was not normal. My husband slowly opened the door again I sure enough something was breathing very heavy just to the side of the door. It also smelled. It was really strong, musky mixed with soggy old carpet and wet dog We closed the door again while we chambered a round and I lit the flashlight and we did a tactical to the left where we...

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Brown County Indiana (Class A) BFRO

Evening encounter by backpacker in Hoosier National Forest

While backpacking near the horse trails and access point in the county below Brown County I experienced a confrontation with a bipedal primate. It was early March of 1998 and I was alone. Around seven...

March 1998

Brown County Indiana (Class B) BFRO

Two campers hear strange sounds and see the outline of an upright creature.

My cousin and I were camping way out in the woods. We had just got there and built a fire when we heard a scream up on the ridge. After we heard the scream we shot our 12 gauge shotgun into the air an...

May 1995

Brown County Indiana (Class B) BFRO

Campers hear possible vocalizations on Yellowwood Lake

My wife and I were camping At Yellowood State Park this past Saturday night. About 1:00am we both were asleep and were woken by a loud hollering noise. It was a very deep howling noise but it wasn't a...

August 2015

Brown County Indiana (Class A) BFRO

Father & daughter sighting in Yellowwood State Forest

Me and my 11yr old daughter was spring turkey hunting 2020 in yellowood state forest behind our house. She seen it first, then I saw it. I watched in disbelief as it moved away from us. It was approxi...

May 2020

Koochiching County Minnesota (Class A) BFRO

Father relates sighting to son that occurred near Littlefork

I am writing this with what my father had told me after he came home from hunting. he was hunting neer a very small lake in a very remote area. He was about 35 in front of "Bigfoot" and what ever it w...

October 1983

Henderson County North Carolina (Class A) BFRO

Motorist slams on his brakes when a 4-5' brown shaggy creature steps in front of his car near Hendersonville

We were driving back to Wisconsin after Spring Break in Daytona Beach, mid-April 1983. We had dropped off a friend, who was in the Navy, in Charleston. We were driving through North Carolina on a rout...

April 1983

Washington County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Sighting and vocalizations at a home in Wayne National Forest

I was staying the night with a friends of mine. It was late at night we were watching TV waiting on his parents to come home. We heard a noise out front and I looked out the window in the door to the ...

January 1971

Benton County Arkansas (Class A) BFRO

Motorist crossing a bridge sees sasquatch digging in the dirt below

In early to mid October of 1981 I was 17 years old. I was working weekends in Fayetteville, a town 28 miles from where I lived in Siloam Springs. I usualy left for work around 5:30am.I would drive the...

October 1981

Routt County Colorado (Class A) BFRO

Outdoorsman finds tracks in snow in Fall ; possible stalking encounter while mountain biking the following summer

1.) October 1996 after the second or third snow of the season. 2.) July 1997. 1.) Huge footprints with a couple inches of snow over them. But the stride was masive and could not be duplicated by m...

January 1996

Logan County Kentucky (Class A) BFRO

Bow hunter encounters large bipedal animal with a short neck and long arms

I had just climbed down from my deer hunting stand and quietly walked to the edge of a large soybean field. The moon was full and I thought perhaps I would see deer running from the field. What I saw ...

October 1972

Tazewell County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Daylight sighting along levee in East Peoria

I saw a creature running on top of a levee just on the east Peoria side of the river.It was all tan from head to feet. It had to be running at least 30 mph. While running its knees were bent.It did no...

February 2013

El Paso County Colorado (Class A) BFRO

Campers report finding large footprints in the snow

Sometime in the late 1970s, a friend and myself were winter camping in the Pike National forest outside of Colorado Springs. I dont recall exactly what month of the year it was, but there was still ab...

January 1980